Play the Game is happy to announce an agreement with professor Hans B. Skaset who will work as a Senior Consultant for Play the Game on a honorary basis in the coming years.

In Iraq kidnappers have released a blind Iraqi athlete and a paralympic coach just two days after capturing them. The two men’s experience is an exception to the rule as athletes in Iraq continue to be prime targets of abduction and assassination for political and economic reasons.

The ongoing drama in Kenyan football took yet another twist this Monday when Kenya’s Football Federation (KFF) and Kenya Premier League (KPL) announced an agreement of collaboration aiming to reinstate order in Kenyan football and relieve the country of its suspension from FIFA.

An unusual plot of money interests lay behind a friendly football match between Spain-Argentina in which a key player was seriously injured.

The Council of Europe has nominated French sports minister Jean-Francois Lamour for president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).

A week after FIFA’s decision to suspend Kenya from international football, the Kenyan government cracks down hard on clubs as well as individuals in Kenyan football.

Affairs in Kenyan football went from grotesque to tragic today when Kenyan minister of sport, Maina Kamanda, made the decision to dissolve Kenya’s Football Federation and at the same time deport one of the federation’s strongest and most enterprising critics, the Canadian born sports entrepreneur Bob Munro.

Knowledge bank: Chinese football has become a showcase of what happens when match fixing is allowed to continue for too long. Fans and sponsors have almost given up on the sport, and in a new attempt to turn the tide, the China Football Association (CFA) and the Chinese police set up a task force in October 2006 to stamp out football corruption.